Chapter 74: An Unknown Journey
"He who says he will win is either deceiving himself or others."
Bai Ning's response was concise and clear, and the connotation was even richer, risk and death were accompanied, and wanting a certain result was just self-deception.
"So, you think you'll always be the lucky one, right?"
Bai Ning's response made Jiang Yingxue's face smile even bigger, but she wasn't ready to end the topic there.
Excessive self-confidence will always make participants like Jiang Yingxue feel like a naΓ―ve fool, smirking lightly on the blade, which is not the result she wants.
"Self-confidence is indeed a good thing, at least it can make people fight for that glimmer of life in a desperate situation."
Regarding Jiang Yingxue's nonsense, Bai Ning's attitude remained the same, his tone was indifferent, and he looked completely lacking in interest.
Death is such a thing, it's boring to talk about it too much, a real explorer, life and death have always been light.
"You can think about it.
This notebook really deserves a good in-depth study, and maybe you can find more secrets in it.
Now that we're completely exposed to the wilderness, and the wild boars have been dead for so many days, do you think they'll attack again tonight? β
Through Bai Ning's overall attitude, Jiang Yingxue was also suddenly a little bored, and the topic changed instantly, talking about the beast herd offensive that had stopped for a long time.
"According to Gogol's point of view, this place is already in the sphere of influence of scavengers, and even if the boar king is revenged, it will have to weigh it carefully.
After all these days, the horses we have placed on the outskirts of the outpost research base are still safe and sound, which says a lot.
Let's take a bold guess, as long as our situation is not too embarrassing, it is basically impossible to be attacked by the herd again. β
The boar herd had lost a female leader in the previous attack, which was a huge blow to the boar king.
At this point in the conversation, the atmosphere in the venue became silent again, which did not affect the implementation of the follow-up plan.
Subsequently, Bai Ning asked the translator Bo Xinshan to participate in the interpretation of the content of the notes, in order to better discover some important clues.
As Bai Ning predicted, the camp was safe and sound for the next few days, and the outlaws lived a very good life, but Bai Ning and the other three were extremely entangled.
Originally, I thought that after the translator Bo Xinshan joined the translation team, Gogol's grandfather's notes would be translated more smoothly, but the result was even more tangled.
The reason is also very simple, because everything in the notes points to the core of the illusion is extremely obscure.
"What exactly is the Illusion Core?
If we are all immersed in the illusion, and you continue to enter the illusion in the illusion, is the core of the illusion just a dream-within-a-dream generation mechanism? β
Jiang Yingxue has limited experience with the Illusion Labyrinth, and is also very interested in Bai Ning's ability to finally escape from the Illusion Labyrinth.
"There's nothing wrong with understanding the labyrinth of illusions as a dream within a dream.
However, in my understanding, the core of the illusion should also have certain AI attributes.
The so-called artificial intelligence, which is not uncommon in various myths and legends, is the most basic is the legend of the creation of gods in the East and the West.
Legend has it that the Atlantean civilization excelled at making genetic creatures, and it is not surprising that they were able to develop certain artificial intelligence technology. β
Regarding Jiang Yingxue's curiosity, Bai Ning only talked in generalities, basically a summary of some common sense, without any novelty.
"Boss, there's a very strange label here, like a description of an experimental scene, lamenting that his good friend ended up in a state of brain death because of his overly radical actions."
Bo Xinshan is a professional translator, and his reading comprehension skills are definitely the strongest among the three, and his sensitivity to some details is also the highest.
His excavation of this detail immediately attracted the attention of Bai Ning and Jiang Yingxue.
"Brain dead?
Could it be that it was an experimental accident when the Illusion Core was turned on? β
Jiang Yingxue's point of view is very instinctive, and it basically belongs to the content related to the core of the illusion.
There are four criteria for the so-called brain death, irreversible deep coma, no spontaneous breathing, loss of brainstem reflexes, and loss of brain electrical activity.
At this time, the brain cells are degenerated, necrotic and liquefied, but the body can still ensure the activity of the body through the ventilator, and even the digestive system can digest food on its own.
However, the concept was only proposed in 1968, and the Soviets began to investigate the Tunguska region in 1927, and Bai Ning felt that the description of "brain death" was likely to be a vegetative state.
"Is it brain death, or is it a cessation of brain activity?"
Bai Ning asked out loud, which forced Debo Xinshan to read it carefully.
"It has the meaning of deep sleep and brain damage, and the overall feeling is similar to brain death."
The scientific descriptions are very rigorous, and the scientific testing of comatose people must be very complete, thinking that the scientists at that time must have been breathing spontaneously, but the overall physical response was like a coma with some degree of brain injury.
This is likely to be the overall appearance of the scientists involved after they were trapped in the labyrinth of illusions, but due to their inexperience, they put the comatose person in a state of irreversible brain damage.
This phenomenon also seems to indicate that the function of the illusion core when it is first awakened is extremely weak, and it is not able to cover the entire outpost research base, let alone turn the entire research base into an illusory labyrinth.
In other words, after the illusion core awakens, there is a process of growth and expansion.
This kind of growth is obviously not a further improvement in function, but a crazy expansion of energy levels.
So, what is the core of the illusion, the energy source used?
After so many years of being abandoned at the Outpost Research Base, the Illusion Core is still so powerful, and it is obvious that its source of energy cannot be fossil energy or electricity.
This sudden realization made Bai Ning suddenly think of a research result he had obtained in the secret laboratory of sleep deprivation.
The process of spontaneous combustion of the human body is too rapid, and such a huge amount of energy explosion is completely abnormal, so relevant scientists believe that it is likely that a certain amount of energy will be released due to the annihilation of the soul.
Since the soul is also a form of energy aggregation, could the energy source at the core of the illusion be the human soul?
If the human soul can be used as a source of energy, then the big bang in the Tunguska region will also be a concentrated explosion of soul energy?!
This strange speculation is as if the ancient ruins of the Tunguska region are the legendary hell infested with evil spirits.
It was precisely due to the catalysis of some unstable factors in 1908 that caused a large explosion in the soul reserve warehouse in the ancient ruins of Tunguska, which finally caused the Tunguska explosion that shocked the world.
Continuing to run wild on this line of reasoning, the technology that can cause the explosion of spirits is the Worden Crevert Tower invented by Tesla.
This kind of bold speculation with unclear theory made Bai Ning feel a little incredible.
However, after thinking about it, the cause of spontaneous combustion of the human body is not clear, and the cause of the sudden collapse of the human soul is even more unknown, and the only thing that can be known is that in the state of spontaneous combustion of the human body, it will cause violent fluctuations in the nearby magnetic field.
So, is there a special mechanism in Wordencliffe Tower that can further catalyze the process of soul collapse, just like the fission reaction of neutrons on the impact of atomic nuclei, this special mechanism will also cause a large number of spirits to collapse rapidly.
If we further reason according to this hypothesis, the ancient ruins of the Tunguska region may have been razed to the ground in the original explosion.
However, according to later simulated explosions, the Tunguska explosion was an explosion in the shape of an airburst butterfly, and the carbonized trees that were still standing at the center of the explosion also corroborated this verification result.
Could it be that it was the violent collapse process of the spirit that caused the self-protection emergency mechanism of the ancient ruins to be activated, and the vessel containing a large number of spirit bodies was thrown into the air, making a self-protection move of abandoning the car to protect the commander.
In the face of this kind of small information that he learned by chance, Bai Ning's mind was chaotic, and he didn't dare to conclude that his crazy guess was incorrect.
Such inexplicable fluctuations in his thoughts made Bai Ning feel that the influence of the illusion core on him still existed.
Thinking about the strange self-destructive behavior of the Illusion Core after Gori successfully escaped the illusion maze through the BUG, Bai Ning also began to have some doubts about whether the illusion core really self-destructed.
If Atlantis' research on consciousness and soul had reached such an extent, the human body would be nothing more than a carrier of consciousness and soul, similar to a piece of computer hardware.
It's hard to be sure that the main program of the Illusion Core is not attached to anyone's body in order to achieve some degree of freedom.
For example, Gogol's temperament changed dramatically after his awakening, which you can interpret as the influence of Ciango Gogol on him, or you can see Gogol as the core of the illusion's consciousness.
The Illusion Core wants to occupy Gogol's body, this is the conclusion that Bai Ning reasoned in the illusion maze, and now that the Illusion Core has successfully occupied Gogol's body, isn't this a factual result?
Thinking of this step, Bai Ning's forehead began to sweat, and he also had some doubts about the inexplicable self-destruction of the illusion core.
Bai Ning's reaction was seen in Jiang Yingxue's eyes, and it also made the expression on her face become more and more solemn.
It's just a brain death case that may be misunderstood, what kind of uproar can such a tiny detail set off in Bai Ning's cognitive system?!
Perhaps, there really is some special reaction mechanism in this lucky gambler, which allows him to discover some secrets that ordinary people cannot discover.
Therefore, Bai Ning can break a bloody path in a place that ordinary people dare not set foot in.